M 5.1 in Balleny Islands Region on 26 Feb 2016 01:49 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1081364
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -62.2332 , 155.2191
Event Date: 26 Feb 2016 01:49 UTC
26 Feb 2016 11:49 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2016 02:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 448 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Ex-dirigentes de usina japonesa são indiciadosTue, 01 Mar 2016 00:28:00 +0100.

Tóquio - Três ex-dirigentes da usina de Fukushima, no Japão, foram indiciados formalmente nesta segunda-feira, por negligência após o desastre nuclear.Eles serão os primeiros a serem julgados pelo episódio ocorrido em 2011. O ex-presidente
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Investigan el relato de testigos que dicen ver fantasmas en zona del t ... Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:17:00 +0100.

A pocos días de cumplirse el quinto aniversario del atroz tsunami que sacudió las costas de Japón, en 2011, un estudio sociológico indaga sobre el aluvión de relatos testimoniales acerca de los múltiples fenómenos sobrenaturales acontecidos
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Green frog that crossed the Pacific with loveMon, 29 Feb 2016 23:00:00 +0100.

Notebook. This is a story from the other side of the world and, when it was told to me by my sister Nancy, it moved me, for it serves as a corrective to my current obsession with throwing things out. The tale stars a little green bucket tha
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New theory of deep-ocean sound waves may aid tsunami detectionMon, 29 Feb 2016 22:08:00 +0100.

Researchers at MIT have now identified a less dramatic though far more pervasive source of acoustic-gravity waves: surface ocean waves, such as those that can be seen from a beach or the deck of a boat. These waves, known as surface-gravity
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),